EXPLAINER: Why was R. Kelly acquitted on rigging trial charge?

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EXPLAINER: Why was R. Kelly acquitted on rigging trial charge?

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors this week scoredmultiple convictions against R. Kellyat the singer’s trial in Chicago, but they lost

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New York and New Jersey legally recognize the institutionof slavery.

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Poet Countee Cullen wins Phi Beta Kappa award.

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1991

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